This paper offers a different view of quality that has traditionally been used. Uniformity of products is of greater concern than just conformance to specifications. Improvement in quality by reducing the number of defectives is a goal every organization likes to pursue. However, the reduction of defectives requires an additional investment in procuring suitable technology and training of emplo...

Clinicians usually do not have access to a lantern test when making an occupational assessment of the ability of a person with defective colour vision to recognise signal light colours: they must rely on the results of ordinary clinical tests. While all colour vision defectives fail the Holmes Wright Type B lantern test and most fail the Holmes Wright Type A lantern, 35% of colour vision defect...

There are a great number of defectives up and down the country for whom institution care is not necessary but who can, if they are given the right sort of occupation which will interest them and brighten their lives, live in the community without any detriment to themselves or to others. For some of these defectives, attendance at an Occupation Centre is the best solution, but many live in dist...

I have known Dr. Wildenskov for many years, and I have read the article on his magnificent Institution in Denmark with the greatest benefit and interest. In all essentials I agree with nearly everything he says. I have the highest admiration for his work and congratulate him very sincerely on his achievement, but there are two quite small points in the article which seem to me give a somewhat i...

on the Terman Revision of the Binet Scale involve almost exclusively language ability, rote memory, appropriateness, clearness and adequacy of detail in imagery, power of conceptual thought and reasoning, those peculiarly human qualities of mind which mark off, from the defective or immature, the normal completely developed intelligence. On the other hand experiments on animal learning have sho...

e*tent, to psychotics, has mainly two aims. The first is of purely ^agnostic nature, for the behaviour of the patient during the group sessions, his reaction to the environment, and above all his individual response, is of diagnostic help. The second aim is therapeutic, for during the group session various therapeutic agencies are engendered ^hich may produce desirable changes in the psychologi...

I am of opinion that the amount of Institution accommodation that will be required in the future is much larger than is generally recognised. My experience as a specialist in seeing patients in their own homes for the Essex Mental Deficiency Committee has shown me the very large number of defectives in one County alone that need and should have Institution care. I believe tha,t large Institutio...